Earlier, Shulem, you posted:
Quoting Joseph…
Woodruff, 1844 wrote:
Yet I have a proclamation to make to the Elders you know the Lord has led the Church untill the present time, I have now a great proclamation for the Elders to teach the Church here after which is in relation to zion, The whole of North and South America is zion, the mountain of the Lords House is in the centre of North & South America, when the House is done, Baptisim font erectd and finished & the worthy are washed, anointed, endowed & ordained kings & priests, which must be done in this life, when the place is prepared you must go through all the ordinances of the house of the Lord so that you who have any dead friends must go through all the ordinances for them the same as for yourselves; then the Elders are to go through all America & build up Churches untill all zion is built up, but not to commence to do this untill the Temple is built up here and the Elders endowed then go forth & accomplish the work & build up stakes in all North and South America.
Grand ambitions for someone that started in Delmarva. And Woodruff just goes right along with the ‘big con’. Wow. Joseph was a rascal.
Long scam.
There are times when the critics seem hellbent on making Joseph into a greater genius than he may have been.
I read these creative interpolations that you and others put out there and I am absolutely amazed at the lengths folks will go to in order to dishonor/disgrace those that claim to speak in the name of God.
But maybe I shouldn’t be so surprised.
It’s interesting that you don’t see a disconnect between Joseph and his early ‘non views’ in respect to Book of Mormon geography (and creating a false map to boot) and his later interest in the same. You really do have to stick to the narrative that from day one he was designing and implementing the ‘long con’.
The traditional narrative, honestly, doesn’t have as many hoops to jump through.
Except for the fact that there are claims of God in the picture.
Again I would ask, if Oliver was in on the con, was Wilford Woodruff also? If not, why? And if he wasn’t, that REALLY makes Joseph into a purposeful and wicked and purposeful deceiver.
Right?
You’re forced into that box. The whole ‘Joe Smith’ thing. Black and white views and positions.
But there is enough evidence to give one pause in thinking this was the case.
Regards,
MG
